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4G at 800MHz (at800) Freeview reception issues

When 800MHz 4G mobile broadband services start there will be 1 multiplex in the higher risk range (C21-23, C30, C59-60): C21: BBCB
See How do I know if the 4G broadband will overload my Freeview? and Full UK map of 4G issue areas for details.

This transmitter has no current reported problems

The BBC and Digital UK report there are no faults or engineering work on the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter. Click to recheck

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The symbol shows the location of the Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) transmitter which serves 920,000 homes.

Other maps:Sandy Heath DABSandy Heath AM/FMSandy Heath regionBBC CambridgeAnglia (West micro region)

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The bright green areas shown where the signal from this transmitter is strong, dark green areas are poorer signals. Those parts shown in yellow may have interference on the same frequency from other masts.


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Sandy Heath transmitter Freeview broadcasts

If you have any kind of Freeview fault, follow this Freeview reset procedure first.

Digital television services are broadcast on a multiplexes (or Mux) where many stations occupy a single broadcast frequency, as shown below.

MuxAerial positionFrequencyHeightModeWatts
PSB1
BBCA
 horizontal -0.5dB
C27 (522.0MHz)291m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		180,000W
Channel icons
1 BBC One Cambridge, 2 BBC Two England, 7 BBC Three, 9 BBC Four, 70 CBBC Channel, 71 CBeebies, 80 BBC News, 81 BBC Parliament, 301 301, plus 12 others

PSB2
D3+4
 horizontal -0.5dB
C24 (498.0MHz)291m64QAM 8K 2/3
24.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		180,000W
Channel icons
3 ITV (Anglia (West micro region)), 4 Channel 4 South ads, 5 Channel 5 Part Network ads, 6 ITV 2, 13 Channel 4+1 South ads, 14 More 4, 28 E4, 33 ITV +1 (Anglia east),

PSB3
BBCB
 horizontal -0.5dB
C21+ (474.2MHz)291m256QAM 32KE 2/3
40.2Mb/s DVB-T2 MPEG4		180,000W
Channel icons
101 BBC One HD (England no regional news), 102 BBC Two HD (England), 103 ITV HD (ITV Meridian Southampton), 104 Channel 4 HD South ads, plus 1 others

COM4
SDN
 horizontal -0.7dB
C51 (714.0MHz)291m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		170,000W
Channel icons
10 ITV 3, 20 G.O.L.D. (not free), 25 Dave ja vu, 26 Home (not free), 27 ITV 2 +1, 30 5*, 31 5USA, 34 ESPN UK (not free), 38 Quest, 39 The Zone, 44 Channel 5 +1, 72 CITV, plus 22 others

COM5
ArqA
 horizontal -0.7dB
C52 (722.0MHz)289m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		170,000W
Channel icons
11 PICK TV, 12 Dave, 17 Really, 29 E4+1, 32 Movie Mix, 46 Challenge, 48 Food Network, 82 Sky News, 87 Community Channel, plus 9 others

COM6
ArqB
 horizontal -0.7dB
C48 (690.0MHz)289m64QAM 8K 3/4
27.1Mb/s DVB-T MPEG2		170,000W
Channel icons
15 Film 4, 18 4Music, 19 Yesterday, 21 VIVA, 24 ITV 4, 41 Sky Sports 1 (not free), 42 Sky Sports 2 (not free), 47 4seven, 83 Al Jazeera English, 85 RT English , plus 21 others



Regional news from the Sandy Heath transmitter


BBC Look East (West) 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Cambridge CB4 0WZ, 29km east-northeast
to BBC Cambridge region - 4 masts.

ITV Anglia News 1.0m homes 3.7%
from Norwich NR1 3JG, 119km east-northeast
to ITV Anglia (West) region - 5 masts.

How the transmission frequencies change over time

years1965~851984-971997-981998-20112011-132013-182013-18
aerial groupVHFA KKWWWW
C6ITV
C21C4C4C4+BBCB+BBCB+BBCB
C24ITVITVITVD3+4D3+4D3+4
C27BBC2BBC2BBC2BBCABBCABBCA
600C31BBC1BBC1BBC1
C32com7
C34com8
C39C5C5
C40+C
C42-1
C43+Alocal
C45-2
C46+D
C48ArqBArqBArqB
700C51SDNSDNSDN
C52ArqAArqAArqA
800C67B

orange background for multiplexes names moregreen background for transmission frequencieslilac background for power levels in watts800MHz band: 4G mobile to start in 2013700MHz band: possible 4G in 2019 more600MHz band: new or moved digital TV services more
Notes: + and - denote 166kHz offset; aerial group are shown as A B C/D E K W
Italics for analogue, digital switchover was Wednesdays 30th March and 13th April 2011.

  • Ofcom have projected that a local television service for Bedford including Sandy could use an Interleaved Frequency on the Sandy Heath transmitter using C43
  • COM7, COM8 projected for 2013-16.

Comparison of old analogue and current digital signal levels

Analogue 1-4 1000kW
com7, com8(-7dB) 200kW
BBCA, D3+4, BBCB(-7.4dB) 180kW
SDN, ARQA, ARQB(-7.7dB) 170kW
Mux 1*, Mux 2*, Mux A*, Mux B*, Mux C*, Mux D*(-17dB) 20kW
Analogue 5(-20dB) 10kW

History of Channel 3 in the Sandy Heath transmitter area

Oct 1959-Feb 2004Anglia Television
Feb 2004-Dec 2014ITV plc
Feb 1983-Dec 1992TV-am•
Jan 1993-Sep 2010GMTV•
Sep 2010-Dec 2014ITV Daybreak•
• Breakfast ◊ Weekends ♦ Friday night and weekends † Weekdays only.


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Michael
Monday 21 January 2013 4:01PM
brian: Have you checked to see if the chip shop is actually getting the Anglia regional news? Because I can see two aerials by looking at google street view - one north, one south.
Dave Lindsay
Monday 21 January 2013 4:27PM
Michael: I'd be more concerned that if I ordered haddock I got haddock and if I ordered cod I got cod.
Brian Manley
Monday 21 January 2013 10:54PM London
Michael : Maybe Mr Fast fry himself is not watching news of school closures in Peterborough but one of his clan is as you can see from your poke around his roof top with google street view the aerial is one of them new fangled 3 pronged 'digital' ones you didn't get in the good old days, Dave : His skate is very good but you need to wait 10 minutes for it..
Transmitter engineering
Friday 1 February 2013 12:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 today to 11:10 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 1 February 2013 12:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 today to 11:10 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 1 February 2013 3:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 today to 11:10 today, BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 today to 12:30 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 1 February 2013 3:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 today to 11:10 today, BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 today to 12:30 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 1 February 2013 9:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 today to 12:30 today, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 today to 11:10 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Friday 1 February 2013 9:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 today to 12:30 today, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 today to 11:10 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Saturday 2 February 2013 4:31AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 yesterday to 11:10 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 yesterday to 12:30 yesterday. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Saturday 2 February 2013 4:31AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 yesterday to 11:10 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 yesterday to 12:30 yesterday. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Saturday 2 February 2013 10:31AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 yesterday to 12:30 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 yesterday to 11:10 yesterday. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Saturday 2 February 2013 10:31AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 yesterday to 12:30 yesterday, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 yesterday to 11:10 yesterday. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Sunday 3 February 2013 4:31AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 on 01 Feb to 12:30 on 01 Feb, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 on 01 Feb to 11:10 on 01 Feb. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Sunday 3 February 2013 4:31AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 on 01 Feb to 12:30 on 01 Feb, BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 on 01 Feb to 11:10 on 01 Feb. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Sunday 3 February 2013 7:31AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 on 01 Feb to 11:10 on 01 Feb, BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 on 01 Feb to 12:30 on 01 Feb. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Sunday 3 February 2013 7:31AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Off Air from 10:35 on 01 Feb to 11:10 on 01 Feb, BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 on 01 Feb to 12:30 on 01 Feb. [BBC]
nick
Monday 4 February 2013 4:50PM Stevenage

i live in sg12ll and half the freeview channels are missing.
psb2/d3+4
com4/sdn
com5/arq a
com6/arq b
all the hd

i pay £ 145.50 a year for half the channels !

i live in a flat with municipal tv supply. they say its a weak area !
how do i get the channels i pay for ?
Michael
Tuesday 5 February 2013 4:07PM Leicester
nick: Maybe it would help if you told us what channels you're missing instead of typing out all of the muxes.

Is everyone else in the flats missing the same channels? If so it could be an aerial problem, as you do need a wideband aerial to get all of the commercial channels from Sandy Heath. Also, HD channels won't show up unless you have a DVB-T2 tuner inside a box or TV.
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 12 February 2013 1:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 12 February 2013 1:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 12 February 2013 4:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 today to 13:23 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 12 February 2013 4:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 today to 13:23 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 13 February 2013 7:32AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 yesterday to 13:23 yesterday. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 13 February 2013 7:32AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 yesterday to 13:23 yesterday. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 14 February 2013 4:31AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 on 12 Feb to 13:23 on 12 Feb. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 14 February 2013 4:31AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 on 12 Feb to 13:23 on 12 Feb. [BBC]
Heather Marsh
Wednesday 27 February 2013 8:44PM
We have previously received all channels but within the last week we have a greatly reduced channel selection. We have emptied and rescanned with no change.
D Williams in NN8 5YU
Wednesday 20 March 2013 4:43PM
in the last couple of weeks our ITV channels
from Sandy have been very poor and breaking up. we did a signal check on each channel and it comes up with "poor ". all BBC and other stations are strong and come up with a full green signal strength, the ITV,s are all yellow with step backs to red ( very bad ) occasionally.
I have reset all freeview settings more than once but problem is still there please comment ? thank you
Matt
Tuesday 26 March 2013 11:04AM Downham Market
Over the last 3 days all HD stations are down. We have never had a problem HD stations before, even had a brand new ariel put/set up by a pro back in November of last year, worked perfectly until the last 3 days???? Postcode PE38.
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 23 April 2013 7:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 today to 12:30 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Tuesday 23 April 2013 7:31PM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 today to 12:30 today. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 24 April 2013 4:32AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 yesterday to 12:30 yesterday. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Wednesday 24 April 2013 4:32AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 yesterday to 12:30 yesterday. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 25 April 2013 4:32AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 on 23 Apr to 12:30 on 23 Apr. [BBC]
Transmitter engineering
Thursday 25 April 2013 4:32AM
SANDY HEATH transmitter - DAB: BBC National DAB Radio Weak Signal from 11:30 on 23 Apr to 12:30 on 23 Apr. [BBC]
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